Coronavirus: Italian teachers and students struggle to adapt to learning from home as outbreak shuts schools
Internet has helped keep lessons going but concerns remain over how younger children can carry on with distance learning, writes Alessio Perrone
Like 8.4 million other Italian students, Stefania did not go to class today.
Instead, she stayed home in her hometown of Oristano, a city in west Sardinia, studying Spanish literature – and worrying about how the school year will end.
“I am one of the high school students that will have to take the maturità [the Italian A-levels] this year,” she explains, worrying that exams might be postponed.
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